Text animation problem

[andrew509]

Hi everybody. This is going to sound a bit stupid but what the heck. I am a webdesigner but i only recently began using flash.

And now i'm finding myself in a little bit of trouble. I have made a picture and added animated text over it. I said that the text can only play once so no looping. But somehow for some reason it keeps on looping.

Here's the code:

<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://active.macromedia.com/flash2/cabs/swflash.cab#version=4,0,0,0" ID=Dodge-Design WIDTH=780 HEIGHT=256>
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="top.swf">
<PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=window>
<PARAM NAME=scale VALUE=Default>
<PARAM NAME=salign VALUE=CC>
<PARAM NAME=play VALUE=true>
<PARAM NAME=devicefont VALUE=true>
<PARAM NAME=loop VALUE=false>
<PARAM NAME=menu VALUE=false>
<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>
<PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#ffffff>
<EMBED width=780 height=256 src="top.swf" wmode=window scale=Default salign=CC play=true devicefont=true loop=false menu=false quality=high bgcolor=#ffffff TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>

As you can see it says "loop VALUE=false", if that would work i would be pretty happy. But eventhough it says false the text starts playing over and over again.

Does anybody have an answer on this one? It only needs to play once and then stop at the end.

Thank you in advance for your answer.

Andrew.

[jeet]

Hi andrew509,

Please check below thinks first

1. Text is a moive clip , if yes just edit the movie clip and enter the last frame stop the movie stop(); then the text is stop

2. if you are using the text as symbol , stop the movie at main frame where you want to stop the movie Stop();

check it

or send the full path or file where i see it and suggest the right option!

regards
jeet

[javochan]

Well I am a newbie too, but look at this

1. The code you just posted is not INSIDE the flash, but html or javascript? if this isn't so, don't bother with the rest of the message

If it Is html, you can stop the flash archive inside the flash
open the .fla archive, go to the last frame of the movie, make sure you are on a keyframe, or create one if not, open the actions panels and write:

stop ()

If the flash doesn't allow you to write, look in the left of the actions panel, look for a tab named "movieclip" or something like that, look for the "stop" and double click it